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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.” ― Aristotle, Rhetoric

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“The law is reason unaffected by desire.” ― Aristotle, Politics

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“Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions

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“Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.” ― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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“The longer the span of someone’s existence, the more certain he is to see and suffer much that he would rather have been spared.” ― Herodotus, The Histories

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“It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.” ― Aristotle, Metaphysics

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“The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.” ― Heraclitus

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“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” ― Aristotle

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“Without injustices,the name of justicewould mean what?” ― Heraclitus, Fragments

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“The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.” ― Epicurus, The Art of Happiness

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“keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: A New Translation

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“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.” ― Seneca

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“I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.” ― Aristotle

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“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” ― Seneca

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“Non abbiamo tanto bisogno dell'aiuto degli amici, quanto della certezza del loro aiuto.” ― Epicuro

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“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.” ― Epicurus

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“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.” ― Herodotus

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“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God” ― Cicero

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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.” ― Epicurus